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I feel like you’re arguing against somebody else here. I made no statements about counterfactual timelines or lord dunmore’s proclamation.
The “it” in question here is the British Empire’s abolishment of slavery (in certain territories) 60 years after the revolution. The fact that the British, in fact, abolished slavery at this point is irrelevant to the revolutionaries’ belief that they needed to rebel to preserve slavery, since they cannot see the future. If you want to argue that the revolutionaries were rebelling to preserve slavery and want to point to Lord Dunmore’s proclamation and general abolitionist sentiment among the British at the time, sure you can have that discussion, but it seems like it was meant for somebody else, since that’s not at all what I was talking about.